V.Ships Seafarer's Charter confirming our highest standards of service to its customers and treatment of sea staff.

V.Group seeks to provide the highest standards of service to its customers and, to achieve this, the company fully recognizes the vital role that its sea staff play. The Seafarers’ Charter confirms how any seaborne member of our team can expect to be treated.

V.Group, therefore, recognises:

The right to a safe and secure workplace that complies with safety standards

The right to fair terms of employment

The right to decent living and working conditions on board

The right to health protection and welfare measures and other forms of social protection

The full implementation of the above rights

Furthermore, V.Group confirms its commitment to ensuring that:

Employment is offered to seafarers free of charge

A workplace free of discrimination of any kind is provided

Wage payments and allotments are paid in a timely fashion and measures are in place to verify this

All seafarers receive wages to which they are contractually entitled

Every effort is made to relieve seafarers at the time stipulated in the contract of employment and that measures are in place to achieve this

Shorebased employees treat all seastaff with respect at all times and that this respect is reciprocated to promote harmony on board

There is follow up of any complaint from seafarers alleging non-compliance with this Charter

There is commitment to improving seafarers lives at sea and ashore as an ongoing priority

If any of our seafaring team is not treated in accordance with the provisions of the charter they can contact the following email address and the complaint will be fully investigated: Seafarers-charter@vships.com.

A copy of our Seafarers’ Charter can be downloaded by clicking on the link here.